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JOSIAH M. READ, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,054, dated November8, 1859; Reissued September 26, 1865, No. 2,076.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH M. READ, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Ovens for Stoves, Ranges, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the sameis fully described and represented in the following specification andthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1, denotes a top View of astove containing my improvement. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of thesame. Fig. 8, is a horizontal section taken through the flue under theoven, to be hereinafter described. Fig. 4, is a horizontal section takenthrough the two chambers over the oven. Fig. 5, is a vertical, central,and longitudinal section of the stove.

In the drawings A, represents a stove as constructed with a fire pot B,the same provided with a grate L, and an ash pit C, in the ordinarymanner, and with six holes or recesses for cooking vessels.

a, is the door for the introduction of fuel to the fire pot.

b, is the door of the ash pit, and c, the oven door.

In the rear part of the stove, and over the oven, is a chamber D, (seeFig. 4,) communicating with another closed chamber E, by means of twodampers (Z, (Z, the said chamber E, having a smoke discharge flue e, forthe escape of the smoke arising from the fire, either in the fire pot,or in the flue under the oven. The damper d, is for the purpose ofallowing the smoke and heat from the fire in the fire pot to pass offimmediately through the chamber E, and smoke flue 6, when a great draftis required. By closing the damper (Z, and opening the damper (Z, theheat and smoke is allowed to pass off the entire length of the oven(when it is desirable to heat the same) and thence to escape through thechamber E, and smoke flue e.

Extending underneath the oven I, and up the rear side of the same andthe end of the stove or range, is a sand recess or chamber F, the samebeing for the reception of a bent pipe or flue G, which enters thechamber F, from the outer atmosphere at the rear part of the stove, andafter traversing the oven at right angles as seen in Fig. 3, extendsupward through the side chamber F, and into the chamber F, and has a.damper g, at its entrance thereto, for the purpose of regulating thedraft through the flue G. A branch m, of the flue G, also extends upwardinto the chamber D, through the chamber F. The flue G, at its entranceinto the outer atmosphere, is provided with a sliding door it, for thepurpose of supplying fuel to the same and regulating the draft thereof,and is provided with a clamp screw or handle 0, to hold it in place inany desirable position.

In rear of the ash pit, and between it and the oven, is an air space H,for the purpose of supplying air to the fire by means of air inlets oropenings 7.4, made in the bottom plate of the stove, the said space H,receiving its supply of air from the cellar or any other suitable place,the quantity of air to be admitted being regulated by a damper Z, placedover the inlets 7c.

In warm weather, when it is desirable to heat the oven without making alarge fire and heating the room in which the stove may be placed, orwhen the fire in the fire pot has become low and it is not desirable toreplenish it; if we introduce a little light fuel into the flue G,through the door h, and ignite it, the oven can be heated in a veryshort time, and the sand or other equivalent material with which theflue G, is surrounded, serves to retain the heat within the oven for agreat length of time.

Having thus described my invention and its mode of operation, what Iclaim is The application and construction of the flue G, with its doorit, substantially in manner and for the purposes as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twenty-eighthday of July A. D. 1859.

JOSIAH M. READ.

